Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice
About this ebook
The book describes ways to evaluate patients, develop in-practice quality of life assessments, resolve difficult clinical dilemmas, and turn good decisions into real welfare outcomes. It reviews available scientific information, legal issues and ethical dilemmas, and relates these to everyday case studies throughout. It provides ways for all veterinary professionals to develop their animal welfare understanding, without assuming prior knowledge, while advancing the wisdom and abilities of experienced practitioners.
Key features:
- Presents practical and realistic methods for working with owners to improve patients' welfare within the constraints of everyday practice.
- Provides useful advice for work within many legal jurisdictions.
- Includes summaries of research, vital references, and further reading sources.
- Key points are recapped at the end of each chapter.
Suitable for all those working in the veterinary and related professions, including veterinarians, veterinary nurses, animal welfare scientists, animal behaviourists, paraprofessionals and lay staff.
Published as a part of the prestigious Wiley-Blackwell – UFAW Animal Welfare series. UFAW, founded 1926, is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity. For full details of all titles available in the UFAW series, please visit www.wiley.com/go/ufaw.
About the author
James Yeates BVSc BSc DWEL DipECVS(AWBM) PhD MRCVS is Chief Veterinary Officer at the RSPCA. He is an active member of the animal welfare research community, and publishes on topics including animal welfare concepts and companion animal welfare assessment. He is Chair of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) Ethics and Welfare Group and British Small Animal Veterinary Association Welfare Committee, as well as being editor of the Journal of Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. He has also lectured on animal welfare at undergraduate and postgraduate level across UK universities.
